A new report from the Center for Democracy and Technology argues AI-generated content deserves First Amendment protection, warning that government regulation could restrict public access to information across search engines, social media, and digital devices, while courts have yet to settle whether AI outputs constitute protected speech.
Elon Musk's xAI files a federal lawsuit against Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, challenging the state's AI nudification ban as an unconstitutional First Amendment violation, while Governor Tim Walz and Ellison vow to defend the law they say protects victims' dignity.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health for all U.S. users 18+ across free and paid plans, integrating personal medical data as weekly health queries hit a record 300 million, even as the company faces legal scrutiny over a potentially dangerous medical suggestion.
Apple sends legal preservation letters to 40 former employees now at OpenAI, escalating its trade secret lawsuit that accuses the AI company of orchestrating a coordinated theft of confidential hardware and product development secrets, with key former Apple executives now holding senior roles at OpenAI, which denies all allegations.
A new Adobe survey of 16,000 creators reveals that 87% say AI is accelerating their business growth and 75% call it essential to their workflow, even as copyright lawsuits against OpenAI, Suno, and Midjourney highlight growing tensions over unauthorized use of artists' work in AI training.
Chinese startup Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is dominating global AI benchmarks across six of seven frontend domains, outperforming giants like OpenAI and Anthropic, but the achievement is overshadowed by serious accusations that Moonshot used over 16 million fraudulent exchanges with Anthropic's Claude to illegally distill its model's capabilities.
Elon Musk's xAI is suing South Carolina man Terry Harwood, already facing child exploitation charges, in a landmark federal lawsuit alleging he used the Grok AI to generate child sexual abuse material, marking one of the first legal actions by an AI company against a user for such misuse.
Dozens of Meta employees are suing the company in federal court, alleging its AI-driven performance tools unfairly targeted workers on maternity, medical, and disability leave for mass layoffs by penalizing them for reduced activity metrics during legally protected absences — Meta denies the claims, but plaintiffs are seeking an emergency ruling to halt terminations and demand an independent audit.
OpenAI is racing to unveil a ChatGPT-powered smart speaker designed by Jony Ive's studio LoveFrom, featuring a camera, sensors, and AI companion capabilities — but a looming Apple trade secret lawsuit threatens to derail the entire hardware roadmap before it even launches.
OpenAI fires back at Apple's trade-secret theft lawsuit, calling the claims baseless as the two tech giants clash in a rapidly escalating legal battle over stolen AI technology allegedly used to build a rival device ecosystem.